Volume 3, Issue 7

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY AND ART OF ALL NATIONS (LONDON, 1851)

Author

Dr.S.Purushothaman Assistant Professor, Department of History, Saraswathy College of Arts and Science, Olakkur, Tindivanam, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract

Abstract: The Indian Arts and Handicrafts had attained its highest position on the eve of the arrival of the British in the Madras Presidency. In the 18th century, the Europeans looked upon India as a source of high profits through their trade. Initially the English East India Company did not alter the ways or the organization of the indigenous industries in India. On the eve of the Colonial Rule quantitatively new forms seems to have emerged in the economic structure of handicrafts, agriculture and trade. This led to the rapid decline in the indigenous industries in India as a whole. Due to the many hardships and sufferings, which were faced by the artisans and craftsmen, the cottage industries began to decline during the period.

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